Feminist economics is the critical study of economics and economies,with a focus on gender-aware and inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis. Feminist economic researchers include academics,activists,policy theorists,and practitioners. Much feminist economic research focuses on topics that have been neglected in the field,such as care work,intimate partner violence,or on economic theories which could be improved through better incorporation of gendered effects and interactions,such as between paid and unpaid sectors of economies. Other feminist scholars have engaged in new forms of data collection and measurement such as the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM),and more gender-aware theories such as the capabilities approach. Feminist economics is oriented towards the goal of "enhancing the well-being of children,women,and men in local,national,and transnational communities."
Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical,fictional,or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles,experiences,interests,chores,and feminist politics in a variety of fields,such as anthropology and sociology,communication,media studies,psychoanalysis,political theory,home economics,literature,education,and philosophy.
Gayle S. Rubin is an American cultural anthropologist,theorist and activist,best known for her pioneering work in feminist theory and queer studies.
Drucilla Cornell,was an American philosopher and feminist theorist,whose work has been influential in political and legal philosophy,ethics,deconstruction,critical theory,and feminism. Cornell was an emerita Professor of Political Science,Comparative Literature and Women's &Gender Studies at Rutgers University the State University of New Jersey;Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria,South Africa;and a visiting professor at Birkbeck College,University of London. She also taught for many years on the law faculties of the University of Pennsylvania and of Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University.
Bina Agarwal is an Indian development economist and Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester. She has written extensively on land,livelihoods and property rights;environment and development;the political economy of gender;poverty and inequality;legal change;and agriculture and technological transformation.
Jacqueline Jones is an American social historian. She held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas from 2008 to 2017 and is Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her expertise is in American social history in addition to writing on economics,race,slavery,and class. She is a Macarthur Fellow,Bancroft Prize Winner,and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize twice.
Julie A. Nelson is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston,most known for her application of feminist theory to questions of the definition of the discipline of economics,and its models and methodology. Nelson received her Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work focuses on gender and economics,philosophy and methodology of economics,ecological economics,and quantitative methods. Nelson is among the founders and the most highly cited scholars in the field of feminist economics.
Lourdes Benería is a Spanish–American economist. She was Professor Emerita at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning. The author and editor of many books and articles,her work has concentrated on topics having to do with labor economics,women's work,the informal economy,Gender and development,Latin American Development and globalization. Before Cornell,she taught at Rutgers University and has given courses in other international centers. She worked at the ILO for two years and has collaborated with other UN organizations,such as UNIFEM and UNDP,and with several NGOs. She obtained her PhD at Columbia University in 1975.
Francine Dee Blau is an American economist and professor of economics as well as Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. In 2010,Blau was the first woman to receive the IZA Prize in Labor Economics for her "seminal contributions to the economic analysis of labor market inequality." She was awarded the 2017 Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor Economists in recognition of lifetime of contributions to the field of labor economics.
Feminist ethics is an approach to ethics that builds on the belief that traditionally ethical theorizing has undervalued and/or underappreciated women's moral experience,which is largely male-dominated,and it therefore chooses to reimagine ethics through a holistic feminist approach to transform it.
Michèle Pujol,was a French intellectual,feminist,economist,scholar,and human rights activist. She was an assistant professor at the University of Victoria's Department of Women's Studies and held a chair at the University of Manitoba. She was a significant feminist economic scholar and an advocate of social justice.
Gender inequality in South Korea is any unequal opportunity or treatment men and women face in South Korea. Gender inequality in South Korea is derived from deeply rooted patriarchal ideologies with specifically defined gender-roles. While gender inequality remains especially prevalent in South Korea's economy and politics,it has improved in healthcare and education.
Leith Patricia Mullings was a Jamaican-born author,anthropologist and professor. She was president of the American Anthropological Association from 2011–2013,and was a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Mullings was involved in organizing for progressive social justice,racial equality and economic justice as one of the founding members of the Black Radical Congress and in her role as President of the AAA. Under her leadership,the American Anthropological Association took up the issue of academic labor rights.
Naila Kabeer is an Indian-born British Bangladeshi social economist,research fellow,writer and Professor at the London School of Economics. She was also president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2018 to 2019. She is on the editorial committee of journals such as Feminist Economist,Development and Change,Gender and Development,Third World Quarterly and the Canadian Journal of Development Studies. She works primarily on poverty,gender and social policy issues. Her research interests include gender,poverty,social exclusion,labour markets and livelihoods,social protection,focused on South and South East Asia.
Edith Kuiper is the assistant professor of economics at State University of New York at New Paltz,and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2006 to 2007.
Joyce Penelope Jacobsen is a former President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Dr. Jacobsen was elected as the 29th President of Hobart College and the 18th President of William Smith College. Jacobsen is a scholar of economics,an award-winning teacher and an experienced administrator. She began her presidency on July 1,2019. She is the first woman to serve as president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Elise L. Andaya is a cultural anthropologist who is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Anthropology by the University of Albany which is the state university of New York. Andaya studies Medical anthropology and gender anthropology and focuses on the effects of gender and citizenship on reproduction and access to healthcare in Cuba and the United States. She attended New York University in New York City,New York. She previously was on the Research Development Committee for the American Anthropological Association,and was a member at large for them from 2014–2017.
Adia Harvey Wingfield is a professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and the 2018 President of Sociologists for Women in Society. She is the author of several books,including No More Invisible Man:Race and Gender in Men's Work,and articles in peer-reviewed journals including Social Problems,Gender &Society,and Ethnic and Racial Studies. She has lectured internationally on her research.
Anne E. Preston is an economist and currently a professor at Haverford College,Pennsylvania,where she teaches Economics courses including Econometrics,Macroeconomics,Women in the Labor Market and Sports Economics. Preston's focus is on career opportunities for scientists and engineers and more broadly on the gender differences.
